Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Century-old footage of Empress Teimei and Crown Prince Hirohito was recently discovered at a university in Ise, giving modern ...

Obverse Image: A sunburst surrounded by a wreath and superimposed over the Yata no Kagami sacred mirror, a part of the Imperial Regalia of Japan; two crossing poles, which each hold up a Japanese war ...

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In the 1920s, Japan began to translate its growing economic might -- after a prior 50-year crash course in Western capitalism and industrialization -- into formidable military power. At first, few of ...

Re “Japanese Musicians Still Turn to the West,” by James R. Oestreich (Critic’s Notebook, Sept. 13): Western music in Japan has an even longer history than Americans may realize. Emperor Meiji, in the ...